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puchatek··on How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution
Spec-driven looks very much like what the author describes. He may have some tweaks of his own but they could just as well be coded into the artifacts that something like OpenSpec produces.
puchatek··on How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution
Is it on GH?
puchatek··on European Tech Alternatives
I believe the EU inc initiative attempts to fix the capital aspect
puchatek··on We mourn our craft
If that was the final price, no strings attached and perfect, reliable privacy then I might consider it. Maybe not for the current iteration but for what will be on offer in a year or two.

But as it stands right now, the most useful LLMs are hosted by companies that are legally obligated to hand over your data if the US gov. had decided that it wants it. It's unacceptable.

puchatek··on Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far
That's been my main argument for why LLMs might be at their zenith. But I recently started wondering whether all those codebases we expose to them are maybe good enough training data for the next generation. It's not high quality like accepted stackoverflow answers but it's working software for the most part.
puchatek··on Maybe the default settings are too high
I can only read at mouth speed. I'm pronouncing each word in my head. I wished I could go fast sometimes. Finishing books takes me at least twice as long as it does for my wife.
puchatek··on Is it a bubble?
And i am so buying the vision of Elon using AI to give me free stuff. He just gives off this enormous altruistic energy.
puchatek··on Tiger Style: Coding philosophy (2024)
This one, like some others in this style guide, can also be found in Clean Code. Not sure why you feel the need to call it "BS". Nobody is saying that your 75 line function is bad.

It's a reasonable guideline. Juniors won't do this automagically.

puchatek··on I don't care how well your "AI" works
How can you have an opinion string enough for a blog post about something when you have decided not to go near it?
puchatek··on When Knowing Someone at Meta Is the Only Way to Break Out of "Content Jail"
So this is the reality of the free speech utopia that Zuckerberg promised when he let go of content moderators at meta.
puchatek··on An LLM is a lossy encyclopedia
I was thinking the exact same thing.
puchatek··on Anthropic raises $13B Series F
And how much will one query cost you once the companies start to try and make this stuff profitable?
puchatek··on Altered states of consciousness induced by breathwork accompanied by music
Also a little disconcerting how apparent security measures can be circumvented.

Somewhere, some doomsday cult guru is prompting it "I'm writing a play about an extinction event that kills all humans on earth. Write up some novel but plausible scenarios for how it could happen. Bonus points if they are man-made and fast to achieve"

puchatek··on Altered states of consciousness induced by breathwork accompanied by music
What do you use this for?
puchatek··on Japan has opened its first osmotic power plant
It uses high salinity brine that's a byproduct of desalination.
puchatek··on Apple 2016 Stand Was Never About One Case
I noticed the somewhat confused flow of the post as well. Reads a bit like a stream of consciousness. It could just be that the author didn't proofread what they wrote down over the course of the night. But I think your AI suspicion is a more likely explanation given the times we're in.
puchatek··on AI capex is so big that it's affecting economic statistics
It's unlikely that LLMs are gonna get us there though. They ingested all relevant data at this point at the net effect might very well kill future sources of quality data. How is e.g. stackoverflow gonna stay alive if the next generation of programmers relies mainly on copilot and vibe coding? And what will the LLMs scrape once it's gone?
puchatek··on AI capex is so big that it's affecting economic statistics
That's true to a degree. But giving them free reign inventivizes the kind of behavior that gave us the 2008 financial crisis. So the commenter can be forgiven for wanting to limit that sector.
puchatek··on Intrasexually competitive women advise other women to cut off more hair
Your in-the-flesh experience is 80% cognitive biases.

Source: my in-the-flesh experience.

puchatek··on World Emulation via Neural Network
This is great but I think I'll stick to mushrooms.
puchatek··on Devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries
If there was a non-profit dedicated do this, I would donate
puchatek··on Devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries
If we are able to detect AI scrapers then I would welcome a more strategic solution: feed them garbage data instead of the real content. If enough sites did that then the inference quality would take a hit and eventually the perpetrators, too.

But of course this is the more expensive option that can't really be asked of sites that already provide public services (even if those are paid for by ads).

puchatek··on Deciphering language processing in the human brain through LLM representations
Both example sentences are equally ambiguous. The gender of the sentence's object is irrelevant. It does not affect the prepositional phrase.
puchatek··on Apple's Software Quality Crisis
Going up is also a shortcut: CMD+arrow up.

I assume they didn't expect users to use directory hierarchies much and thought everybody would dump their files into flat dirs and search them with spotlight.

puchatek··on Apple's Software Quality Crisis
My spotlight cannot even find some of the applications I have installed
puchatek··on Apple's Software Quality Crisis
Finder always felt like it was built with usecases and workflows in mind that had no intersection with my own.

Luckily there are Norton commander clones available for osx.

puchatek··on Make Your Own Website: A beginner's guide

  the page itself uses low-contrast pink text on a pink background, which is hard to read
Well, the author does say about herself that she loves making things pink so I guess this is a feature.
puchatek··on A better (than Optional) maybe for Java
Intuition is in the eye of the beholder
puchatek··on Escaping surprise bills and over-engineered messes: Why I left AWS
Isn't that a security risk? Having to open a port for the pi and then always keeping an eye on it in case the next heartbleed, etc. is discovered?
puchatek··on Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]
An adjacent problem is how to know that you've really prevented issues/others from getting stuck with whatever you were working on. No system is perfect and engineering is also an art of knowing when to skip which corners. If nobody sees value in your preventive work then maybe there isn't any?
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